Thursday March 17
2:45pm -3:45 pm – Registration – refreshments – PHILLIPS HALL- Room 330 .
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Colloquium Talk –
Yakov Sinai – Princeton University
Moebius function and statistical mechanics.
The talk is to be held in MURRAY Hall room G 202 (Murray is a new building part of VENABLE, on the campus map it is called the Physical Science building).
Friday March 18
The talks are scheduled in James M. Johnston Center- GRAHAM MEMORIAL on campus Room 39
9:00 am -9:40 am- Oleg Ageev -Moscow State Technical University.
On joinings realizations of dynamical systems
9:50 am -10:30 am- Jean Pierre Conze – University of Rennes 1- France
Quenched central limit theorem for random walks with a spectral gap
10:40 am- 11:20 am- Corinna Ulcigrai- University of Bristol- England
Mixing time changes of parabolic flows
11:20 am – 12:10pm- Francesco Cellarosi – Princeton University-
Homogeneous Dynamics for Theta Sums
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 pm- 2:40 pm- Melanie Guenais -Universite Paris Sud – Orsay-France
Step functions as coboundaries over irrational rotations and applications
3:00pm- 3:40 pm- Guy Cohen Ben Gourion University-Israel
On the convergence of the rotated one-sided ergodic Hilbert transform
6:30 pm – Dinner at the Top of the Hill
Saturday March 19
The talks are to be held in Phillips Hall –Room 332
9:00 am -9:40 am: Yves Guivarch-University of Rennes 1-France
Spectral gap and strong ergodicity properties for group automorphisms action on nilmanifolds.
9:50 am -10:30 am: Danijela Damjanovic-Rice University-
Non-trivial cohomology and perturbations of group actions.
10:40 am-11:20 am: Jean Paul Thouvenot University Pierre and Marie Curie – Paris-
Some new results in the theory of positive entropy transformations
11:30am- 12:10pm: Kim Presser – Shippensburg University
Pointwise characteristic factors for the multidimensional return times theorem
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 pm- 2:40 pm: Ilya Vinogradov-Princeton University
Limiting distribution of visits of several rotations to shrinking intervals
2:50pm – 3:30pm: Alexander Kachurovskii Sobolev Institute of Mathematics,Novosibirsk
On the rates of convergence in von Neumann’s and Birkhoff’s ergodic theorems
3: 40pm – 4:20 pm: Martin Schmoll Clemson University
Recurrence and dense orbits for universal covers of translation surfaces with attached pillow-cases
4:30pm – 5:30 pm: Problems Session
Sunday – March 20
The talks will be held in Phillips Hall, Room 332.
9:00 am -9:40 am – Joe Auslander- University of Maryland at College Park
Open extensions of minimal flows
10:00 am -10:40 am – Michael Lin- Ben Gourion University-Israel
Remarks on the uniform ergodic theorem
11:00 am- 11:40am- Jonathan Mattingly-Duke University-
Coupling at infinity
End of the workshop